Whereas LaCie offers a single card reader, which handles all the various flash-mediacard formats, SanDisk supports the same formats with seven different readers. Four of them read only one format each (CompactFlash, MultiMediaCard, SecureDigital, and SmartMedia), and three cover multiple formats (one handles CF and SmartMedia; another, CF and Memory Stick; a third, CF, MMC, and SD). But not one supports all. The SanDisk card readers are significantly cheaper than the LaCie all-in-one reader, and according to our tests, they're better: On the average, the CF version of the SanDisk ImageMate transferred our 170MB BMP in 3 minutesand our complex directory in a record-setting 4 minutes 47 seconds. Among the USB readers, only the SCM reader performed better. The number of supported formats might not be important to you; in most cases, an inexpensive reader that supports one or two is sufficient. That's when you turn to SanDisk.

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